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Meet the Awesome Company That Makes Sunglasses Out of Recycled Denim

Mosevic was founded by Jack Spencer and Alex Boswell, two friends who both had a background in designing sustainable products. It took Boswell and Spencer four years to perfect their process to turn denim into sunglass frames, but once it was finalized, they set up a Kickstarter campaign and the company was born!

LG Chem develops a plastic to replace aluminum in solar panel frames

LG Chem says it's developed a plastic material that can replace the metal in solar panel frames for the first time in Korea and will be targeting

Plastic And Papyrus Used In Restoration Project

Environmental scheme funded by the German REWE Group aims to create 'floating islands' of recycled plastic bottles, containing the plant used to make the first paper

Bread bag is 36% bio-based

Eureka! Organic Bread switches to bread bags made of 36% sugarcane-based PE when introducing its products to the East Coast market for marketing...

Top 10 Modern Trends in Performance Plastics

Curbell Plastics’ senior business development director weighs in.

Icon Plastics makes £200,000 investment in new machinery and robotics

Precision plastic injection moulder, Icon Plastics, has expanded its workforce and capabilities following a £200,000 investment in high-tech equipment to meet the demands of a growing client base.

Half price online energy efficiency courses for plastics processors

As more and more companies endeavour to reduce their carbon emissions, a new course designed to help plastics processors reduce their energy use has been released on PolymerCourses.com, the British Plastics Federation’s (BPF) eLearning platform.

Plastic Tools & Accessories from Interstate Plastics

Interstate Plastics aims to be your one-stop resource for all plastic applications; that means more than just plastic.

People skills key to success in growing plastics industry

Industry working to address skills gap and need for more workers.

Manufacturing with FANUC Robots and Automation Drives Growth for Noble Plastics

FANUC Corporation (USA) - FANUC America Corporation has released a new YouTube video about Noble Plastics Inc., a Grand Coteau, Louisiana...

PET and PEN ship-in-a-bottle design lets plastics replace glass

Atlanta—Tracy Momany showed audience members of The Packaging Conference (Feb. 4-6; Atlanta, GA) a video of a 4-ft drop demonstration between a glass bottle and a new plastic packaging called BrightPak. "Being a plastics person, I couldn't resist showing this video where the glass bottle breaks, while the plastic bottle bounces," said Momany, VP of Plastics Technologies, Inc. (PTI).

The search for sustainable plastics

As petroleum-based polymers foul our oceans and litter our lives, researchers seek more environmentally friendly ways to meet demand for durable, versatile…

Plastics Unwrapped Explores The World Of Plastics

Plastics Unwrapped explores what life was like before plastics, the science behind them, what happens when we throw them away, and what's next for the "material of the future".

lightweighting: how plastics are taking over your industry

Manufacturers are turning to lightweight plastic parts in many industries, and automation in the form of smart, collaborative robots will be critical to meet rising demand and handle new products.

Polaris Plastics dispense with the mess

Polaris Plastics is a specialist supplier of standard and bespoke refuse sacks. Their track record in the supply of refuse sacks to the janitorial and...

Kickstart: You can't ignore plastics sustainability

I know it seems like we've had a lot of sustainability and recycling stories in Plastics News lately. That's because we have. And because those issues are very much in the news.Plastics and sustainability even made it into the final statements coming out of this year's G7 meeting, where all seven…

Five things to know about plastic bag recycling